Jam the turnstile slot, wait, then suck the stuck token out by mouth. How New York's grimmest fare scam worked, and how the Transit Authority fought it.
The MTA rule says an animal must be enclosed in a container. It sets no size limit, and that silence is how the IKEA-bag dog became a New York sight.
A rail siding under the Waldorf Astoria, still connected to the network, long tied to FDR. What is documented, and what turns out to be legend.
The zebra board is a rulebook requirement confirming the train is berthed correctly, a habit borrowed from Japanese railway safety practice.
NYC subway stations ranked by the lowest median household income of the census tract they sit in.
Blacked-out windows, no doorbell, no residents: the Greek Revival townhouse on Joralemon Street is working subway infrastructure in disguise.
Closed since 1945 and never demolished, the first subway line's original southern terminal is still visible from the 6 train's turning loop.
Subwaydle, Metro Memory New York and DailyMetro test three different skills. Which one fits the kind of subway nerd you are.
Metrodle crops the Tube map. DailyMetro gives you a clue after every guess, across 273 London stations and 20 other cities. Play today's station free.
Records, quirks and history riders notice, from the oldest line to the deepest tunnel in the network.
From a 173-foot-deep elevator stop to a sky platform over the Gowanus, ten stations that are genuinely strange.
City Hall, Worth Street and six other closed, walled-off or never-opened stations still hiding under New York.
A game made for one friend, a viral tweet and a month of rollercoaster: the story behind DailyMetro.
NYC subway stations ranked by the median household income of the census tract they sit in.